The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
WASHINGTON T
from Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. D. c.,
IAN 81 1887

record, notwithstanding what its
critics said last session. 1t may
not produce a. new tariff act, or
stop the silver coinage at its pres
ent rate, BUTT has provided against
an interregnum in the Presidential
succession, it has settled the Elec-
toral count controversy, and it has
put into the hands of the President
an act for the regulation of inter
state commerce, for which the peo-
pie of certain sections have been
calling in vain for years. 1t has
also attended to some pressing
needs in a dozen other directions,
whatever may have been its general
conduct.
During the present week the Sen
ate has voted against woman suf-
frage, voted again against the con-
frmation of Recorder of Deeds
Matthews, voted for closing the
ports of the United States against
Canadian imports, in retaliation
for England's violation of treaty
obligation with regard to fisheries,
and it is now debating the ques-
ton of Agricultural Experiment
Stations. The House is plodding
over prosy appropriation bills.
Senator Hoar created mild SEN
sation in the Senate a few morn
ings since by proposing a new
rule. He is outraged at the irrev-
erance of the Upper House, and he
asked that the Senate shall not be
called to order nor the Chaplain's
prayer proceed at any time until a
quorum be present. He said it
was a ridiculous and disgraceful
spectacle, the daily delivery of the
invocation in the presence of only
three or four Senators. If religious
exercises were to be continued they
should be decorous. If his propo-
sition should carry in both Houses,
it would greatly disturb habits of
long standing, and perhaps lead to
an abolition of the Chaplain's of
flee altogether.
For nineteen years the National
Woman's Rights Association has
held its sessions in Washington
For nineteen successive years the
prominent advocates of woman suf-
frage have here set forth their griev-
ances, challenged and condemned
their %oppressors, cherished their
faith and renewed their vows. For
nineteen years Miss Anthony, Mrs.
Sattuck, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Hook
er, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs.
Harbert, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Sewell,
Miss Cousins and others, have APP
pealed to Congress for the ballot,
have pressed the matter to a vote,
have hung over the galleries of the
House and Senate in earnest anti
cipation; and they have repeatedly
seen one House or the other vote
down their ''cause" as they saw the
Senate vote it down yesterday.
The fact that sixteen Senators of
the ffty-one then present in the
Senate Chamber voted in their IA
vor while they counted on the
friendship of eleven more who
were absent is considered a great
triumph. Miss Anthony feels that
the labors of a life time are now
bearing appreciate fruit. She re-
allies that twenty years ago her
proposed Constitutional Amend
ment would have been hooted out
of the Senate with derision. Ten
years ago it would not have Jared
much better, and five years ago she
could not have counted upon the
approbing votes of sixteen Sena-
tors.
A friend of woman suffrage said
to Miss Anthony: 1.-THE trouble
with your cause is that it lacks po-
%litical vitality. Senators come and
go and Representatives still more
frequently without regard to the
merits or dement's of the principle
of woman suffrage. Couldthe ques-
ton involved become a direct is
sue before the people, and the cleo
ton of Senators and Members be
made to turn on it, the result might
be different. Nc one is sent to Con-
gress as a woman su~ffragist," con-
tinued he, Gall of them come I'M
instructed in the matter except by
their own prejudices, and so they
vote"
Miss Anthony read in conven-
the names of those Senators who
voted for her bill, calling it the
troll of honor from the Senate
wing of the Capitol" and then the
names of those opposed. The au-
dience applauded when she re-
marked that the new Senator, Mr..
Farwell, who occupies General Lo-
gan's former seat, cast his first
vote in the Senate for woman.
Il was decided to Sspot" those
Senators who had put themselves
on record against this bill for wo-
man, and Miss Anthony remarked
that if Senator ingalls, should be
reelected from Kansas it would be
because the women of Kansas were
powerless to defeat him. He would
find a party among his constitu-
ents that he had not counted.
JUNO.
The Republican %utterance in the